Music Box (1840 to 1860 Geneve)

rederick William du Commun-Girod

47.00 cm wide   15.00 cm high   19.00 cm deep

18.50 inches wide  5.91 inches high  7.48 inches deep

A fine, 6 air, lever wind Music Box by this well known maker in a box veneered with walnut and strung with ebony. The original tune sheet lists the following airs

Rule Britannia
Waltz No. 1
God Save our Gracious Queen
Polka the Balmoral
Aunt Sally
Martha

As a departure from the practice of the vast majority of makers who usually signed on the bedplate, this instrument is signed as above on the back of the winding lever – see The Cylinder Musical-Box Handbook by Graham Webb who refers to Ducommun as “a good quality maker”


Frederick William du Commun-Girod was working in Geneva from 1840 to 1860 and clearly built this box with the English market in mind.

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